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John Holten

John Holten
John Holten is a novelist. His two novels The Readymades (2011) and Oslo, Norway (2015) were published by Broken Dimanche Press, which he co-founded in Berlin in 2009. In 2024 he published his third novel The Trains of Europe. His writing has been published in frieze, gorse, The Stinging Fly, and Electric Literature, among other places. Over the years he has collaborated with many visual artists with literary and text additions to their work, as well as exhibiting and performing his own visual, text and codex works in gallery settings.
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How a Train is Like a Novel: On the Phenomenon of Illusory Self-Motion

John Holten Considers the Mechanics of Movement on the Page and on the Tracks
March 25, 2024  By John Holten
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